Kate Middleton wearing Issa

Now there is a new sign that Kate Middleton is very much the Royal bride in waiting. She has been having outfits custom made in keeping with her new status, to avoid the humiliation of turning up in the same dress as another guest.

The Mail on Sunday has learned that the dress she wore to the wedding was tailor-made for her by her favourite dress designer, Daniella Issa Helayel.

“Kate has been having couture dresses made for her recently and Issa is her favourite label,” says a friend. “The dress she wore to Harry Meade’s wedding is one of her favourites. It was made for her especially and there is only one in the world, which is why Kate loves it so much. It fits her perfectly. The jacket was also by the same designer and Kate often teams it with other skirts and dresses. She loves Issa’s look and wears it well. Kate knows she’s going to need conservative yet attractive outfits once they are engaged and she’s started collecting a very enviable wardrobe.”

Conveniently for Kate, Issa has also recently started making wedding dresses. 

While the Palace insists that there is no official engagement announcement planned, people are anxiously awaiting what is set to be the wedding of the decade. At the Palace a blueprint is in place ahead of an announcement, while a number of leading caterers have submitted proposals to Clarence House with menu plans.

A PR adviser for the Middletons?

This is according to Katie Nicholl…

The Middletons have hired a PR adviser, a local woman from Berkshire. And for the first time in William and Kate’s nine-year courtship they seem to be carefully courting the media.

Last weekend, as their parents were shooting at Balmoral, the first-ever interview with Kate’s younger sister Pippa was published in a Sunday newspaper magazine.  The interview was billed as a chance for Pippa to promote the company’s online magazine, but in truth she has been working on the project for months.

While she refused to discuss her sister, Pippa was accompanied by her mother throughout the interview.  Carole, it subsequently emerged, is on the Dukan diet and surviving on cottage cheese and prawns. ‘I’ve been doing it for four days and I’ve lost four pounds,’ she told the interviewer.  Her revelation has prompted speculation about what event she is getting in shape for.

A source close to the Middletons says the interview, complete with pictures of Pippa posing with cup cakes at a pub close to the family’s Bucklebury home, is the first tentative step in their induction to public life as Royal in-laws.  Until now, they have never uttered a word to the Press, on the advice of Clarence House. Even when they have wanted to speak out, they have been urged to keep silent.

Article: Daily Mail

William & Kate’s Storm Scare

A huge tree branch crashed through Prince William and Kate Middleton’s bedroom window as they slept during a storm.

The Royal couple ran downstairs and outside to safety then alerted Royal Protection officers based in a building near the remote farmhouse in North Wales where they were staying.  When the police squad checked the farmhouse after the 1.30am incident, they found that high winds had ripped off a thick branch from a 40ft tree nearby and had blown it into the window.  Glass fragments from several panes as well as parts of the tree were found on the ground near the secluded property.

The source added: “William and Kate have been briefed many times on what to do if they fear they’re under attack and they did the right thing – alert the professionals and get safe. They ran from the building and alerted William’s protection officers.Once the cause of the drama was discovered and relayed to William and Kate, who were still inside the officers’ building, they looked at each other for a second or two, then burst out laughing, probably out of sheer relief.”

Article: Daily Mail (scroll down)

It’s Business as usual for the Middletons

Kate Middleton’s parents have ambitious plans to expand their successful mail-order business, Party Pieces. Mandrake hears that Michael and Carole Middleton are keen to expand their successful Party Pieces company and want their younger daughter, Pippa, to take an increasingly prominent role.

“The couple have ambitious plans,” says a friend of the family, who live in Berkshire. “Michael wants to take a less hands-on role in the firm, though, and thinks Pippa would be ideal to move the company forward.”

Last weekend, Pippa, 27, who currently works three days a week for the family firm, gave an interview to promote an internet magazine that she has launched as an offshoot of Party Pieces.

Article: The Telegraph
Link of Interest: Party Pieces

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